Patience
 

Do you have it? :D

I try to be patient. I used to have a very short fuse, but I've learned to relax a bit as I've gotten older. Tell myself "it's only a few minutes, relax, there's no emergency, life's too short to be stressed with things out of your control..." But I still have no patience for:

*People driving under the speed limit in the left/fast/passing lane; or people who cut you off in traffic, then proceed to drive really slowly.

*People in the grocery checkout line who take too long by arguing, or asking employees to go back & get something for them that they forgot, when there are lots of people waiting in line behind them.

The other day, a woman raced & beat me to the checkout. I had 3 items, she had about 10. I was calm, then I noticed that she waited until all of her items were scanned & bagged to pull out her shoppers card. AFTER that she decides to write a check, smiles at the cashier & says "I guess I could have had this partially written out before I came." I swear I almost shot her.

I have none, and also have issues with everything you mentioned.:o :o :o

I absolutely HATE driving anymore, whereas I used to love it(because traffic always sucks now).

Me = no patience for anything at all. I hate it.

I barely had enough patience to reply to this thread. Also, I will volunteer to kill that check writing lady for you.

I have none whatsoever. Naturally, my impatience is the worst while driving. The grocery store lines usually don't bother me. My main issue there would be people who don't have good shopping cart etiquette. I wonder if that would be a "driving" thing too?

^ you have 1111 posts. That's cool.

Anyway, you mean when they don't move over far enough with their cart so you can get yours through? Or when they leave it in the middle of an aisle & walk away?

Damn it, I screwed it up already! I should pay more attention to my post count. As for the carts, the thing that gets me is when I'm behind someone who's shuffling along right down the middle of the aisle. I'm a fast mover, get out of my way!

If a cart is in my way and it happens to be unattended...I move it. Sometimes I give it a really good push too. :laugh:

i have patience for animals, children, and old people.

i do not have patience for anyone going under the speed limit at any time. and by "speed limit" i mean "9 miles an hour above the speed limit."

i got irrationally angry two days ago when i was in cleveland with my friends because a) i wasn't driving and i'm a complete control freak and b) my friend drives REALLY SLOWLY and doesn't take the "fast" routes. so after sitting in stop-and-go traffic on mayfield road for 30 minutes, we finally get on the freeway, only to get off the freeway 3 EXITS EARLY because she was tired of the freeway. so we sat in stop-and-go traffic for 35 MORE MINUTES instead of being on the freeway for 10 more minutes. god almighty.

i don't have patience for people ordering food when they don't know what they want. guess what? you don't know what the fukc you're doing. step off.

people who write checks under any circumstance except paying bills. what the hell do you think this is, 1990? use your goddamn check card. it takes 7 seconds and doesn't make the people behind irate.

there are 1000's more. :laugh:

^Yes to all of the above.

Yes. Yes. I hate that. Actually, I hate all carts and related stupidity b/c I just use a hand basket. But the point is, can't everyone else see the aisles are skinny, and not drift slowly down the middle? :rolleyes:

OMG - like at McDonald's - how fukcing stupid are these adults who wait ten minutes in line and then get up to order and have no clue what the fukc they want. HELLO IT IS MOTHER FUKCING MCDONALD'S - they have been there a billion times in the past and just spent ten minutes in line with NOTHING to do but look at the menu :mad: :mad: :mad:

Meanwhile, you actually know what you want and are in a hurry. The best is when they ask their kids what they want right when they get to the register. :mad: :mad:
You might as well sink back and relax, cause you're in for a good five minute wait. :mad:

I think I have an average amount of patiece.

except when driving or at Wal-Mart.

seriously. Bad drivers don't bother me :o

mostly because I'm a bad driver :laugh:

but also-there really isn't anything I can do about it :shrug: I'd rather save up my pent up frustration and use it on someone I'm face to face with that says something completely stupid or looks at me the wrong way :laugh:


that's how I roll...

oh yeah. I do that too. One time I was at old navy and I turned around and ran into this guys stroller. I felt SO bad and genuinely apologized. He just gave me a dirty look and turned his nose up. I said (loudly) "ooooookaaay!!!"
then later after I paid, his stroller and shopping cart was in my way to get out. so I picked the cart up (If I had been REALLY pissed, I would have done the stroller :laugh: j/k ) , moved it and SLAMMED it back down. I thought is (very large) wife was gonna kick my ass. The only person I had with me was my pregnant friend-SHE wouldn't have been any help, so I would have flown solo. But it would have SO been worth it!! :laugh: :laugh:

I am patient...except where Carrie is concerned!!!!

what is that supposed to mean? :shrug: :confused:

She drives me CRAZY!!!! ooo ooo.........:]

Are any of you on blood pressure medication? :laugh:

I'm a very cautious driver, so I'm sure most of you would hate me. I never drive more than 5 miles over the speed limit unless it's to keep up with the flow of traffic, I slow down at yellow lights instead of trying to race through them, and I always use my turn signal.

And I generally have no problem waiting behind someone in the checkout line (unless it's just ridiculous)...usually I don't have anywhere else pressing that I need to be, so...:shrug:

I'm usually a pretty laid-back person, which drives the Type A personalities around me nuts. I get wound up/stressed out if someone is an asshole toward me in some way, and also over big things...like Republicans, or fundamentalist Christians (or Jews, or Muslims).

nope. 110/68 this morning :nod: :laugh:

I have patience for the big things in life, and low tolerance for little petty, less important things. :shrug:

I have tons of patience. My hubby has almost no patience. Yep, that causes problems but he also has high blood pressure from the zero patience:distress: He needs to slow down and enjoy life more like I do:D

Same here. Rudeness is one thing that could make me angry.

Romy

I try to have more patience after working in retail, but it generally doesn't work. Especially when driving... I sometimes find myself wanting to get out of my car in traffic, walk up to the person in front of me and say 'Excuse me, but your gas pedal is on the RIGHT, not the LEFT. happy driving!'

nevermind ... :laugh:

hush, I already fixed it. :laugh: Blonde moment!

i have a lot of patience.

if i get stuck in a long line at the grocery store or walmart, it's usually my own fault. saturday evening at 6pm? yeah, it's going to busy. if i choose to go then, i figure i choose to stand in line. so i watch all the other people around me going nuts and getting impatient and crabby, and go totally zen.

stuck in traffic? great opportunity to listen to music. nothing you can do about it. getting upset doesn't get you there sooner.

ditto if i'm at work, and an edit is going slowly - and the editor is getting tense - i tend to make jokes with him/her to lighten the mood. if he/she makes a bad edit and has to re-do it, i usually just say, "that was just PRACTICE, right?" it makes them laugh, and no one gets all tense. my basic attitude is, it's just not worth it. being calm is so much more enjoyable. and you get more done if you don't waste energy being impatient.

(do i sound like a new age freak? eeks. can;t have that. well.... i have absolutely NO patience for laziness, ignorence, idiocy, or indifference). how's that?

let me tell you all something that I've found works. I've just discovered this this past week. whenever you feel patience running low, think of a song and pick your favorite line and sing it. sing it outloud.

my songline of choice:

"to da left, to da left...erything you own in da box to da left"

it works wonders.

imma hafta try dis. i can just see myself at the grocery store: "doooooooon't goooooooooooooo wasting your emoooooooooooooooooooootiooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ..."

I have absolutely no patience and my fuse is microscopic.

I do my best not to let forth my wrath on just anybody, though. I save it for those who really deserve it - like telemarketers. :D

^^^
telemarketers are the worst.

one from my credit card company called just the other night and went on the tangent about some security feature that 7.99/month - he talked so fast and then all I heard was him say "I just need you to say yes"

I said the following: "hell no...I don't know what you're talking about, you're barely speaking audible English and frankly, I don't feel like discussing my credit card right now...it's kind of a sore subject."

he said: "thank sir...have a good night"

bitch was owned. ;)

^^ho****!

i was a telemarketer for a week. it was awful.

I LIKE you!:xoxo:

I've told cashiers a million times, "if you charged these old idiots $1, for writing a PAPER check, they'd learn to use a check card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And I'm with 10000% on the 9 miles OVER the limit. Get the HELL outta the way(especially in the passing lane!).

:thumbsup:

haha, no joke. unfortunately, there's nothing the cashiers can do, so i try not to say **** to them, unless it's in a conspiratorial way, like, "can you believe what a douchebag that dude was?" :laugh:

oh hell yeah. i've gotten to the point that i am a shameless tailgater, and i don't even care anymore. if you're not going to go 9 over, get in the right lane. :rolleyes:

another thing i have no patience for as a passenger (my mother does this): she gets behind someone in the right lane who's going, say, 52, and bitches about it for 5 miles even though there's no one in the passing land. that's what it's THERE for! :mad:

Well, it's RIDICULOUS that this paper check writer slows down MANKIND!
Hey grandma, see that LINE behind you? Join the 21st century!!!!

YES, another one. Have you seen the old ladies, that HAVE to count out the change, to the exact penny, and it takes them like two minutes!!!! Hey Grandma!!!! We're ALL waiting, on your Godd*mned fukcing pennies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I've become, in the past five years, quite possibly the angriest driver in the U.S.
If there's a string of traffic behind you....for god's sake, I beg of you, with my dying fukcing breath, "pull the fukc over" Please Geezus, "pull the fukc over"!

Humans seem to miss the logic of the passing lane. How dumb are they?;)

Wow, Homie:shrug:
Take it easy, dude;)

Okay, hang on.....more wine......
Ah, that's better!:lol:




Why is it, that every single checkout line, seems to get stuck?




Why do I hate waiting, so much?:confused: :confused: :confused: :lol:

I would have broken your spirit....:blob1:

I'm quickly losing my patience with this thread. :laugh:

ME TOO!!!!:mad: :lol: